Server to run Fluent Simulations
Hi,
I am looking to purchase a server to run Fluent simulations. I will be running supersonic, viscous simulations with meshes of size around 2million cells. The specs of the machine i'm looking at are: 2 x 6 core processors (intel xeon 2.66GHz) 16Gb ram 2 x 1Tb hard drive 1Gb nVidia graphics card Will these specifications be sufficient? I have a budget of $8,500AUD, which this machine just falls under. Am I better off reducing the number of cores and increasing ram? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your time, Alan |
Alan,
Your thinking is correct instead of going to 12 cores try 8 cores latest i7. It could give you better results. Increase the ram to 24, or if possible 32 gb. The latest nehalem architecture helps to make the system run faster............. |
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Don't forget to take into account the cost of 12 individual parallel licenses (~$18,000) vs 1 'HPC 8 PACK' (~$8000). |
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